Collaboration vs. Competition: The battle for VR dominance begins

"My personal response to the latest tilt at virtual reality gaming has been inconsistent, and that's putting it mildly. I played one of the earliest Oculus Rift prototypes, an unsightly device that seemed like nothing more than a novel way to experience Doom 3. John Carmack was excited by its promise, so I attributed my own muted response to ignorance about the hard problems that Palmer Luckey had apparently solved. Subsequent iterations of the hardware chipped away at my doubts, and a memorable first encounter with CCP's EVE Valkyrie took a sledgehammer to their very foundations."